Using genAI processing to summarize personal messages marks the first time Meta has applied Private Processing, Meta said. “We expect there will be others where the same or similar infrastructure might be beneficial in processing user requests,” the company explained.

Meta last week added secure keys to Facebook messaging, which provides an extra authentication layer for users to access messages.

There have been concerns about genAI companies using customer data to train models. Data privacy and genAI has also been a topic in sovereign AI, where individual nations have their own privacy and data residency regulations.